The War on Anything

The war on anything is a money-making fraud. Take the war on drugs. Remember Mrs. Reagan’s “just say no.” Notice any lack of opioids in our latest epidemic with its enormous death rate? How long now that the “war against drugs” is only restrained by imprisonment?

Has the war on terror seen a diminishing number of terrorists or is there an increase in their number stemming from our drones murdering their wives, children, the elderly, the newlyweds in their wedding parties, all killed by some clerk in middle America looking at a screen who pushes a kill-them button. He chooses the ones to die including helpers who come after to aid the fallen. Sometimes there’s even a 3rd attack at the cemetery. Killing two is called a 2-fer. The dead are dehumanized into bug splats. Helpless onlookers turn to violence after watching us destroy their schools and hospitals and water purification plants and … life. Creating terrorists is like a puppy factory. Always a new litter. Did our fighters or drones actually kill any of their leaders and does it really matter? Is our stance of victory fictitious?

It’s fear that turns our pockets inside out so the change falls into waiting hands. It’s fear that takes the bills from our wallets. Waging the war in Iraq is reported to be 4.75 trillion. Corporate news stimulates fear. They’re gonna come and get me. Oh noooooo. Take my money and build walls against the imagined attackers; distribute guns, enlarge our nuclear arsenal, and feed the military-industrial complex—let death make richer those that are already rich. After we threaten to drop a nuke on them, they create one to drop on us so that we all will die together. Hopefully, fear of reciprocation stays our hand. Yet, there are lunatics who believe in first strike as an actual win.

How about the ”war on cancer?” ‘charity Navigation reports 52,749,382 spent on breast cancer. There are endless drives to collect money for a cure that is just around the corner. How much of the money goes to the next collection drive, how much to CEO salaries? The cancer treatment, as always, consists of poisoning, radiating and operation. Where are the new wondrous techniques? Where are the breakthroughs we are funding? Are they just around the corner, or back around the bend?

Would a good government kill people they call terrorists in-order to make a profit? Would people in charge of the war on drugs distribute drugs to create the problem, and in turn the war, as a moneymaking schema? Is there an added benefit in silencing those who might put pressure on government to fund social programs by keeping them stoned and passive? The war on drugs arrests minorities disproportionately for drug use, rarely drug using white college students. Finding and arresting the victimized population for as little as a roach in the pocket puts that person into prison for years. The prison population works at corporate jobs for pennies. It is a new form of slavery. Slavery makes the masters rich.

In war, any incursion, any use, any intended or accidentally destructive action to interdependent life can be deemed a necessary sacrifice for the greater good. The eyes of those in charge are blinded by dollar signs. They would have us believe that we are fighting the good fight, but, make no mistake that war, on anything, is simply a translation to creating and hording wealth. Can life on earth be sacrificed for profit? It can and is happening now.